Research Books
Sponsored by Hewlett Packard's Consumer Applications and Systems Laboratory, the mandate was to conduct research of tweens (ages 11-14) in relation to technology, personal agency and engagement.

Tweens: Technology, Personal Agency, and Engagement.
The book, Tweens: Technology, Personal Agency, and Engagement. A Model for Design Research, documents the process, the findings, and the tools that the students developed, namely personas, scenarios, "tween realities" and "vibrations".
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Creative Leap
The Media Design students used the findings and interpretive tools to brainstorm with engineers and researchers from Hewlett-Packard: to take a "creative leap" from the research. The outcome of this second phase is documented in the book, Creative Leap.
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